Dirk Wittenborn
# Dirk Wittenborn

Dirk Wittenborn (born 1952 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American screenwriter and novelist.

## Biography

Wittenborn was born into a family of scientists. He has two older sisters and an older brother. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and started writing in the early 1980s while working at Saturday Night Live. Wittenborn is married and has a child, Lilo Wittenborn. His nephew is James Wittenborn "Jamie" Johnson, a film director, with whom he produced the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Born Rich.

## Works

### Fiction

* Pharmakon (2008)
* Fierce People (2002), cinematized in 2005 under the same name.
* Zoë (1983) (republished 2004 as Catwalk)
* Eclipse (1980)

### Nonfiction

* "The Social Climber's Bible" (2014)
* Bongo Europa (2006)

### Film

* The Lucky Ones (2008)
* Fierce People (2005)
* Born Rich (2003) (producer)
